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Ryan Walters Accidentally Screens Retro Nudie Flick for State School Board Members... (thelostogle.com)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by andros_rex@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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For context, Walters a couple of years ago was leading a witch hunt against school libraries, claiming that they were filled with pornography.

This also comes out the same day Oklahoma was declared 50th in education.

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[–] athairmor@lemmy.world 77 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (8 children)

It was a metaphor for the ways he’s fucked OK education and the students.

This article: Board members: TV in Ryan Walters’ office displayed nude women during executive session

is not pay-walled.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 57 points 6 days ago (7 children)

Hah, and when this source asked the guy's office about it the guy's spokesman went full DARVO:

Asked about the situation, Walters’ latest director of communications, Quinton Hitchcock, responded with a pointed statement Friday afternoon.

“What an absolute joke of a story and this is embarrassing from you to write a junk tabloid lie,” Hitchcock wrote in an email. “Any number of people have access to these offices, you have a hostile board who will say and do anything except tell the truth, and now, ‘NonsenseDoc’ is reporting on an alleged random TV cable image. Rock solid truth in journalism.”

So yeah, now I'm even more convinced the guy was caught red-handed....

[–] magnetosphere@fedia.io 33 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Yup. Avoiding the question and topping it off with a personal attack is almost as good as an admission of guilt, IMHO. It’s a ridiculous, desperate tactic.

[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 6 days ago

I feel like modern journalists really need to focus on the main logical fallacies and dissect these quotes pointing out how powerful they are at misinformation. People use fallacies offensively like this because it's effective.

[–] dhork@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Or, this spokesman is auditioning for a gig on Trump's PR team.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Walters was really gunning for Department of Ed. Not as rich as McMahon though…

[–] teamevil@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

Especially from the right

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